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      • ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world
        152·
        3 days ago

        Don’t schedule a colonoscopy unless you have symptoms of a GI disorder, or unexplained weight loss. The evidence does not support non-targeted screening programs.

        • SatyrSack@quokk.auOPEnglish
          21·
          3 days ago

          What should be my default “Remember that you’re getting old!” helpful tip now, then?

            • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              5·
              2 days ago

              Ugh yeah. I’ve been slowly backing up my wife’s, my parents’, and my own music CDs, and while it thankfully hasn’t gotten to many of them, it’s ate enough to be annoying.

              Especially because my wife’s collection is mostly very specific performances of classical music and operas, which can make finding rips difficult when it’s not a particularly popular recording.

              And the CD-Rs are almost all toast. I’m lucky the old family PC HDDs still have most of the old family photos, so I’ve been able to back them up. Can’t believe we used to think that backing up the pictures to disc would last longer.

              • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                :O CDs aren’t for life?!

                There goes my distro-surfing phase’s efforts before I switched to pendrives. Wasted a few spools on distros, archived, for a nostalgic visit I may never be able to take. :3

            • SatyrSack@quokk.auOPEnglish
              12·
              3 days ago

              The only problem with those is that saying either of those could easily be misinterpreted as me suggesting that they had misheard/misread what I just said. Colonoscopy works because it is a bizarre enough suggestion that the joke will almost certainly land. But I definitely don’t want to encourage unneccessary medical procedures as a casual joke.

          • ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 days ago

            Your healthcare providers are perversely incentivised to recommend scoping because it’s an easy money maker, but for most people the discovery and removal of benign polyps is not worth the risks that come with an invasive procedure (IV stab to give sedation and pain relief, over sedation affecting tasks requiring concentration, complications due to the procedure itself).

        • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
          1·
          17 hours ago

          Terrible advice. Screening prolongs lives much more than you think. Got a history of family polyps? Which a lot do, get screened. Those will turn cancerous. Wife is an RN at a GI clinic. They see it day in and out.

          But no, go ahead and just bury your head in the sand so you don’t have to go through 1 night of shitting your brains out to find out they removed the polyp(s) that would have turned into cancer in 5 years and resulted in only having to remove some intestine, if you’re lucky. Just 1 example of why it’s important to do it. And, if you react well to anesthesia, propofol is one hell of a great nap.

          What are the risks to be screened? Super freaking low.